insomnia?
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- sputnik2
anyone here have it? i'm falling asleep but waking after a few hours and am unable to get back to sleep. i have a million thoughts (not worries) in my head and i can't shut them down. i don't drink much nowadays, i run 5x a week, i don't take any meds and eat well. it's not depression or anxiety, just perky at 2am and can't get back to sleep.
anyone else have this issue?
- digdre0
put your ipod on, you will fall asleep!
it's how i do it.- crazy guyMarcelom
- i actually might try thatsputnik2
- whats crazy about that.. it just works for me. it's how I do it every nightdigdre
- letme know if it workeddigdre
- must be some special genre of music?drgss
- orgasms and stuffdigdre
- No, I just play regular stuff on my mp3.. Ulrich Schnauss, bloc party, stereophonics, moby,...digdre
- Fariska0
what about a very boring book?
- ukit0
Maybe you just need to live in a different time zone
- Russell_Sprout0
it could just be a pattern/habitual. Sometimes if you wake once accidentally/randomly at a certain time and your routine stays the same the next day, you may wake at the same time for no reason other than you did the night before.
you may need to shake up your routine a bit for a day or two to break the occurrence.
- sputnik20
i did the book thing last night...didn't really work. i avoid television and will get up to read after about 1/2 hour.
i did break down last night and drank some wine in an effort to calm things down. it worked but i'm more tired now and that's not really a great habit :[
- ismith0
I used to. Only slept about an hour for every 24 awake... quite shitty (my dad still has it though). I keep music on 24/7, drink tons of tea and when I've decided it's time to go to sleep I'll just sit cross-legged and plan tomorrow. Either the next day is fully planned or I fall asleep pretty quick.
- dog_opus0
I've had it my whole life – it sucks. Plus, my body always leans toward a nocturnal circadian rhythm (I can wake up at 6:00 AM all week, and then on a day off, I'll sleep till 10:00 or later). My doctor gave me a sleeping aid prescription, which I use when nothing else is working. Beyond that, if I wake up, I use breathing/meditation techniques to get back to sleep.
- sputnik20
the moon is 97% full. that ever affect anyone here?
- Nairn0
Yup. I'm a 'fretter'. My sleeping 'pattern' is all over the shop and I'm afraid I have no useful, healthy suggestions for you.
My entire life, I've not been able to just 'stop thinking'. When I was a kid, I'd lay awake at night, thinking. Same when I was at school, at uni, at a 9-5, when I had a company that was doing well, when I thought I was about to get arrested, when I thought London was going to get fucked-on (2005 - not a great period in my life), when I had a year off and didn't have to worry about ANYTHING, and now, when I have no cause to.
My mind just turns over and over and over. I can't distract it because then the distraction consumes me - work, books, internet, films, games, whatever - I'll just keep at it 'til the sun comes up.
I try and avoid caffeine after 6pm.
I start smoking weed after 6pm.
I have backup sleeping pills/sedatives for knocking myself out should I need to guarantee a certain amount of sleep.
I know that alcohol seriously affects my sleep (it'll knock me out for 4 hours or so - but then I'll wake up, feeling awful, unable to get back to sleep = part of the reason I don't drink much any more)I'm 'lucky' in that I now work from home, and/or have always worked in an environment where specific hours didn't matter too much.
So yeah - I feel your pain.
- poor nairn! it sounds like my problem but more severe. i had serious insomnia in my 20s and it's been replaced by this now.sputnik2
- WeLoveNoise0
i dont have it anymore cos i have these cute little things called drugs
- Nairn0
Actually, fariska has a point - read dull stuff.
Though, there's a couple of relatively dry periodicals I read a lot of, starting with the, because they were so dry, they'd bore me to sleep.
Now though, I'm kind of into them - so will happily read them cover to cover, then turn on the internet to read more.
Je suis doomed.
- Nairn0
Only time I sleep really, really well is when I go skiing.
Or when I used to do manual labour summer jobs during Uni.
- hmmm, fresh air/physical activity = sleep maybe?Russell_Sprout
- Aye, which is pretty hard for a graphic designer,spending all day on his arse! (I'm changing career soon, to something a ..Nairn
- little bit more physically-involving... And no, I'm not becoming a rent boy, before someone suggests it...Nairn
- what is a rent boy?Russell_Sprout
- is that like a chav? white pants and all.Russell_Sprout
- A boy for rent? kinda self-explanatory!
http://www.urbandict…Nairn - ahh, boy for rent and rent boy, two very different things. http://www.siteforre…Russell_Sprout
- Marcelom0
maybe a good handjob with some vids at www.pornhub.com
and you are done.
- janne760
fapsomnia
- Marcelom0
janne76, arent you gay?
- queerer than a $3 bill.Russell_Sprout
- me, that is.Russell_Sprout
- centro0
I suffer from it.
Instead of shutting your eyes and hoping to fall asleep - try keeping your eyes open. You will start to feel sleepy.
- Jnr_Madison0
I've never had a problem with it, sounds heavy though.
- lolNairn
- ..and then, weeps slightlyNairn
- ..fall to knees, remembers why I had knee pads on.Jnr_Madison
- Well, blow me.
Strewth.Nairn
- SkyPoo0
I suffer with insomnia really bad. My method is to write something that makes no sense. I used to write nonsense for about an hour, but recently I've noticed it takes only ten minutes. I make sentences according to the rules of sentence making, and the sentences generally form a narrative of sorts, but I deliberately make the whole thing out of entirely wrong words, and it derails my brain from whatever thoughts occupy it. I read it back two or three times, making corrections and amends... just like its a real piece of copy... and in that way my mind becomes consumed by it, superceding whatever my mind was railing on beforehand. Its imprtant to put all your concentration and focus on it becuase when you go to bed and your brain starts to think it through and make corrections that are all uter gobbledeegook so it can't get a grip on anything logical. Next thing you know, its morning.
- Now you have QBN to write on?Jnr_Madison
- SKYPOOOOdigdre
- I drop them in the blog thread sometimes. I'm dying for someone else to start doing it so I can...SkyPoo
- ... establish a website for insomnia prose and start a new form of literary expression. The Insomniists.SkyPoo
- wouldn't know anything about that, but I do have a nice pouch full of green arms here.killthefish
- Kapow!SkyPoo